Station 28: Moless Station

3 Aug

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Explore the creepy relationship between religion, sex, and abuse as the train arrives at Moless Station!

Random Rider  Gustavo explains why he’s an atheist

Don’t Touch Me There  Sex scandals span the spectrum of world religions 

Marcia’s Journey One woman’s tale of religion, rape, incest, and recovery Watch the full documentary “The Process of Recovering” on Vimeo  https://vimeo.com/452757010 

The Limericists  Dirty Dick The Leprechaun contributes!

….And More!

 

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Station 27: Singularity City

9 Sep

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In Singularity Circus:

Random Rider:  Dan went from Catholic bookstore owner to rational thinker!

Godless Gab:  Grumpy Jim has a physics degree…what does he remember?!

Big Bang Britt:  Beloit College’s resident astronomer takes us across the universe.

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Station 26: Avenue 51

4 Mar

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As the train pulls into Avenue 51 station, we examine the pseudo-science of Alien Origins Theory.

In This Episode:

Random Rider:  Tony B tells his tale

Chariots of the Gods: The gang discusses the book that started it all…

The Limericists:  Mickey Mouth regales us with his Limerick, Space Junk.

T-Rexpert:  Paleontologist Thomas Carr Explains how life really began on rocky planets.

Weather Jesus:  A redox of the Area 51 report.

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Station 23: Conspiracy Corners

29 Nov

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In this episode:

Random Rider Eric…  notices prayer doesn’t produce

What Counts as Conspiracy? with Balloon-animal Jason

Meta-humanist    Interview with the Friendly Atheist, Hemant Mehta

Rest in Particles  Farewell, James Randi.

Plus More!

 

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Sidetracked: The Covidiots! and BLM

22 Sep

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The train is sidetracked for months by Covid crisis, and now the riots have taken hold of our hometown! 

In this episode:

America, O Shame On Thee  a stirring rendition of the classic

The Covidiots!  Conservative or Liberal, who cares?…Where is the leadership?

Grumpy Jim  Will a libertarian be in favor of mandatory masks?

Atheists Less Likely To Die From Coronavirus  research finds!

Kenosha Burns for BLM Observations from Ground Zero

Blacks Bop vol. 1!  The AU Train goes Soul Train with the Ghost of Don Cornelius 

plus more!

 

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Station 24: Darwin

1 May

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In the midst of Covid-19, with a team of science-deniers leading the American response, the train pulls into to Darwin Station, with a big dose of medicine for the un-evolved!  Get on board and help us bring Science back into vogue…. with Special Guest….Aron Ra!

In Darwin:  

Random Rider  Josh thinks it’s wrong to lie to kids…

Darwin-Diggety  These monkeys weigh in on the atheist hero and his legacy.

Ra-Volution  Interview with Creationist Wras’ler Aron Ra

Secular News and Events….and Commentary

…..and More!!! 

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Station 23: Church and State

26 Feb

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Two streets that should never intersect!  Why are Christian civic planners trying to bring them together?  And how can we stop them?

At Church and State:

Random Rider:  Steve, Steve, could never believe

The Panel:  Religiots vote as a bloc.  So should we.

Welcome to the Family: A report on the Netflix horror documentary

Separation Anxiety:  The great secular constitution just doesn’t quite work for everybody.

Secular News and Events….. Vouchers in Montana; Mormons are big bizz!

Plus More!

 

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Sidetracked 4: Satan’s Leftovers

1 Feb

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Too much to eat at Satan’s Village for the holidays;  we have leftovers! 

On this Sidetrack:

CoS v ST  Church of Satan was first, but Satanic Temple gets the headlines these days

The Fall Guy  The original Super-villain’s true origin story 

Plus More!

 

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My Old Friend

13 Oct

 

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The bizarre and heart-wrenching story of our oldest pet’s tribulations this past year or two spun me hard for a minute, and led to the painful birth of this poem.  I’m not maudlin about pets, especially cats, but Coco is special.  It’s hard to keep these types of verses from being corny, but the effort to avoid such I think led me to some of my favorite phrasing ever.

Click Here to listen to me recite it, or read below on your own.

 

My old friend had found us

At the bottom of despair

And let us hang around him 

As we made our way from there.

 

He came to us in chaos,

He purred us into peace

He pardoned hearts imprisoned 

Upon granting their release.

 

Birth and Death, Divorce and worse,

He suffered other pets

He murdered critters in the yard

And flabbergasted vets.

 

A broken fang from fighting, 

A tendency to roam,

He disappeared a fortnight once, 

And found his way back home. 

 

The road was rough for Tabby tough,

Transitioning of late.

Now deliverance awaited

Down the interstate. 

 

But Irony presses the fabric of life

In a wrinkle-free garment from hell;

And my old friend who mended hearts

Would crush them just as well. 

 

Road trip, rest stop, food and water

Hours from the end.

Couple hundred miles, 

A brand new home for my old friend.

 

But freedom beckons boldly

Of a cold Kentucky dawn;

My travel buddy bolted

For the woods across the lawn

 

I followed, flailing, logic bailing,

Failing to discuss,  

That losing sight of my old friend

Would mean the end of us.

 

A dismal fog of doom descended, 

Dimming daybreak’s flush

I thrust into the thicket, 

Over logs and underbrush

 

Bramble flayed my flesh to mesh

With fire in my breast.

The Wolf of Truth consumed my soul,

Mosquitoes ate the rest.

 

Of course my pal outpaced me quick,

As cats are keen to do,

But I swear I saw him smiling

As he faded from my view.

 

Hawk, she screams from high above, 

Mourning dove, she moans.

Crow she cackles, Owl she hoots, 

In haunting, taunting tones. 

 

Cricket chirps a marching dirge 

To measure my defeat

Squirrel hurls insults

At my pussified retreat.

 

Blue Jay scolded, “stupid man, 

your friend is gone for good!”

And Nature’s mocking music 

Thus expelled me from the wood.

 

Coyote howls to greet the day, 

Cougar hunts alone.

And all nine lives of every cat 

Remain, in fact, his own.

 

To Bear the pain was down to me, 

My friend was unafraid.  

So I took one final look 

Into the trees beyond the glade.

 

A Frog of grieving choked my throat, 

I croaked his name and then,

I finally, broken-hearted, 

Drove away from my old friend.

Texas

29 Sep

Ever wonder why the song isn’t called “Deep in the Mind of Texas”?

Of course you haven’t…. why would you?

Stupid texas

Aron Ra had to post recently about how he was testifying before the Texas state “Bored of Education”, as he calls it, regarding that it’s attempt to rewrite history, and subsequently the history books, to portray America as a Christian nation, founded on the ten commandments, among other monkey-headed fundamentalist stupidity.

It makes me wonder if the entire legislature in Texas is a blinking mob of imbeciles who really buy this nonsense, or a giant conspiracy of incredibly cynical evildoers with no whiff of Christian conscience whatsoever?   I wonder if there’s a blend?  A tiny band of string-pullers, and a huge assembly of small-minded, backwater politicians, as easily wagged by the tail as their pin-headed constituency.  I hope at least there’s some bizarre, Eyes Wide Open-style hedonism cult at work to make it more interesting…

To call Texas backwards is to insult all directional vectors, everywhere.  To call them dangerous is accurate.  They write the textbooks, and they well impress the smaller redneck states with their assumed ability to kick most of the world’s nation’s asses all by their lonesome.

Just as Catholics who continue to attend mass are supporting pedophilia, Texans who continue to live in Texas and don’t speak up about this immeasurably perilous development in a critical time in our nation’s history are part of the problem.  Every right-thinking Texan, secular and otherwise, needs to fight this, and stop it now, as tho’ ’twere cancer, because it is.  Just as most Christians are too busy with Capitalism to really be good Christians, most secularists are too busy with the same thing to fight the thing that will eventually kill what they love.

It’s a war that could easily be won with a concentrated effort on an intellectual battlefield, and that’s where the war must be fought.  After all it’s Texas, and it’s too big to just go kick its ass, even for Aron Ra.